AWLS Course

AWLS 2017 Course

Advanced Wilderness Life Support (AWLS) is a 3 day course designed for healthcare professionals, to convert their medical training into a form usable in limited resource ("wilderness") environments. Anybody with a healthcare license or certification is eligible (EMT, RN, PA, MD, DO). Non-healthcare providers can also take the same course but receive certification in Wilderness First Aid (WFA). The curriculum was developed at the University of Utah in the late 1980s and has continued to be refined since then. AdventureMed, an organization founded to manage the AWLS program, now licenses other institutions to teach it. ACWM is currently the only licensee in the southern Appalachians to teach the course annually (with a reorganizational hiatus in 2013). We have a deep, multi-institutional faculty that features instructors from a diverse range of states and backgrounds.

The Wilderness Medical Society designates this educational activity for a maximum of 20.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 20.5 credits or credit hours are also available for RN and EMS continuing education credit.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through joint sponsorship of the Wilderness Medical Society and AdventureMed. The Wilderness Medical Society is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Registration:

AWLS: $695 Doctorate, $495 Non-doctorate (The non-doctorate registration includes EMTs, nurses, other allied health professionals, resident physicians and graduate students with doctorates but still in training.)